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Not one to throw water on the Zunebox Xbox, I let others do it for me.

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Whilst Apple’s iPod and iPhone products continue to create new sales records, Microsoft’s Zune player pricing continues to slide with discounts ranging from 17 to 20% off retail according to Amazon.

Whereas the iPod at the retail level is sold at list price, online it attracts only a 5% discount at most.
The dramatic discounting for the [...]

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The folks at hideapod.com have released the ultimate anti theft device for your ipod, an iPod cover that is shaped like a brown Zune player.
It’s really very simple. Just tell us what iPod model you want to protect and we provide a gutted and hinged Zune with our custom molded iPod casing adapter. We also [...]

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Universal Music has announced that it has ended their long term contract with Apple’s ITunes and is now on an “at will” contract which basically means they have gotten out of their lease and are now on a month to month at iTunes. This is now a battle of wills.
After driving Microsoft into a corner [...]

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Microsoft Employees at the Zune Headquarters in Redmond Washington are refusing to give up their iPods. In an attempt to force staff to give up their ipods without retribution, the Zune staff have installed an “iPod Amnesty” bin.

iPod Amnesty Bin
Originally uploaded by fimoculous.
“After been out for a week, the effort has been pretty much a [...]

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In a surprising strong report on Zune Sales, Microsoft says it now claims the lead in the delivery of hard disk based players that start with the letter Z (oops the Zen sells better) …with the letters Z and U and are colored Pink and are manufacturer by Yuckatume…
the “limited edition” pink Zune has become [...]

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Microsoft has quietly killed the Portable Media Center, the ms-comic-sans of portable devices and embedded mobile OS offering that provided on-the-move playback of content synced with Windows Media Center. The hardware was manufactured by various hardware chumps vendors including Creative (above) and Phillips.
In case you didn’t know Creative had one of these immensely popular paper [...]

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Whilst battling poor Zune sales and a complete drubbing online at the hands of Google, Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft has backed down from a previous statement that Microsoft was indeed looking at a Zune type iPhone.
Todd Bishop from Seattle PI, reports that:
Lieberman asked, “When can we look forward to a Zune phone?” and [...]

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Just as soon as I proposed that Microsoft adopt a DRM Free platform in order to compete with Apple, Apple announces DRM free music from EMI on Itunes….
Reacting to Apple’s announcement Monday that it will soon begin selling music tracks from EMI without copy protection, PiperJaffray analyst Gene Munster advised investors to look out [...]

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